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Linus Torvalds
3e2014637c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main updates in this cycle were:

   - Group balancing enhancements and cleanups (Brendan Jackman)

   - Move CPU isolation related functionality into its separate
     kernel/sched/isolation.c file, with related 'housekeeping_*()'
     namespace and nomenclature et al. (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Improve the interactive/cpu-intense fairness calculation (Josef
     Bacik)

   - Improve the PELT code and related cleanups (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve the logic of pick_next_task_fair() (Uladzislau Rezki)

   - Improve the RT IPI based balancing logic (Steven Rostedt)

   - Various micro-optimizations:

   - better !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG optimizations (Patrick Bellasi)

   - better idle loop (Cheng Jian)

   - ... plus misc fixes, cleanups and updates"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds
  sched/sysctl: Fix attributes of some extern declarations
  sched/isolation: Document isolcpus= boot parameter flags, mark it deprecated
  sched/isolation: Add basic isolcpus flags
  sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping code
  sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter
  sched/isolation: Introduce housekeeping flags
  sched/isolation: Split out new CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y config from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
  sched/isolation: Rename is_housekeeping_cpu() to housekeeping_cpu()
  sched/isolation: Use its own static key
  sched/isolation: Make the housekeeping cpumask private
  sched/isolation: Provide a dynamic off-case to housekeeping_any_cpu()
  sched/isolation, watchdog: Use housekeeping_cpumask() instead of ad-hoc version
  sched/isolation: Move housekeeping related code to its own file
  sched/idle: Micro-optimize the idle loop
  sched/isolcpus: Fix "isolcpus=" boot parameter handling when !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
  x86/tsc: Append the 'tsc=' description for the 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter
  sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic
  block/ioprio: Use a helper to check for RT prio
  sched/rt: Add a helper to test for a RT task
  ...
2017-11-13 13:37:52 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
ebf3adbad0 timers/nohz: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
Use lockdep to check that IRQs are enabled or disabled as expected. This
way the sanity check only shows overhead when concurrency correctness
debug code is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509980490-4285-5-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-08 11:13:49 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6f1982fedd sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter
We want to centralize the isolation management, done by the housekeeping
subsystem. Therefore we need to handle the nohz_full= parameter from
there.

Since nohz_full= so far has involved unbound timers, watchdog, RCU
and tilegx NAPI isolation, we keep that default behaviour.

nohz_full= will be deprecated in the future. We want to control
the isolation features from the isolcpus= parameter.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-10-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27 09:55:30 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7863406143 sched/isolation: Move housekeeping related code to its own file
The housekeeping code is currently tied to the NOHZ code. As we are
planning to make housekeeping independent from it, start with moving
the relevant code to its own file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-2-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-27 09:55:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
62cb1188ed sched/idle: Move quiet_vmstate() into the NOHZ code
quiet_vmstat() is an expensive function that only makes sense when we
go into NOHZ.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: aubrey.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: cl@linux.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-10 11:43:29 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
59b60185b4 Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull nohz updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle relate to fixing another bad (but
  sporadic and hard to detect) interaction between the dynticks
  scheduler tick and hrtimers, plus related improvements to better
  detection and handling of similar problems - by Frédéric Weisbecker"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  nohz: Fix spurious warning when hrtimer and clockevent get out of sync
  nohz: Fix buggy tick delay on IRQ storms
  nohz: Reset next_tick cache even when the timer has no regs
  nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers, again
  nohz: Add hrtimer sanity check
2017-07-03 13:33:57 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
a0db971e4e nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path
The idle load balancing registration path assumes that we only stop the
tick when the CPU is idle, ignoring the nohz full case. As a result, a
nohz full CPU that is running a task may be chosen to perform idle load
balancing.

Lets make sure that only CPUs in dynticks idle mode can be picked as
idle load balancers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497838322-10913-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-22 11:30:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3c85d6db5e sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"
The loadavg naming code still assumes that nohz == idle whereas its code
is actually handling well both nohz idle and nohz full.

So lets fix the naming according to what the code actually does, to
unconfuse the reader.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497838322-10913-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-22 11:30:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d4af6d933c nohz: Fix spurious warning when hrtimer and clockevent get out of sync
The sanity check ensuring that the tick expiry cache (ts->next_tick)
is actually in sync with the hardware clock (dev->next_event) makes the
wrong assumption that the clock can't be programmed later than the
hrtimer deadline.

In fact the clock hardware can be programmed later on some conditions
such as:

    * The hrtimer deadline is already in the past.
    * The hrtimer deadline is earlier than the minimum delay supported
      by the hardware.

Such conditions can be met when we program the tick, for example if the
last jiffies update hasn't been seen by the current CPU yet, we may
program the hrtimer to a deadline that is earlier than ktime_get()
because last_jiffies_update is our timestamp base to compute the next
tick.

As a result, we can randomly observe such warning:

	WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 0 at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:794 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick kernel/time/tick-sched.c:791 [inline]
	Call Trace:
	 tick_nohz_irq_exit
	 tick_irq_exit
	 irq_exit
	 exiting_irq
	 smp_call_function_interrupt
	 smp_call_function_single_interrupt
	 call_function_single_interrupt

Therefore, let's rather make sure that the tick expiry cache is sync'ed
with the tick hrtimer deadline, against which it is not supposed to
drift away. The clock hardware instead has its own will and can't be
used as a reliable comparison point.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Wright <tim@binbash.co.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497326654-14122-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ Minor readability edit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-13 08:45:43 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f99973e18b nohz: Fix buggy tick delay on IRQ storms
When the tick is stopped and we reach the dynticks evaluation code on
IRQ exit, we perform a soft tick restart if we observe an expired timer
from there. It means we program the nearest possible tick but we stay in
dynticks mode (ts->tick_stopped = 1) because we may need to stop the tick
again after that expired timer is handled.

Now this solution works most of the time but if we suffer an IRQ storm
and those interrupts trigger faster than the hardware clockevents min
delay, our tick won't fire until that IRQ storm is finished.

Here is the problem: on IRQ exit we reprog the timer to at least
NOW() + min_clockevents_delay. Another IRQ fires before the tick so we
reschedule again to NOW() + min_clockevents_delay, etc... The tick
is eternally rescheduled min_clockevents_delay ahead.

A solution is to simply remove this soft tick restart. After all
the normal dynticks evaluation path can handle 0 delay just fine. And
by doing that we benefit from the optimization branch which avoids
clock reprogramming if the clockevents deadline hasn't changed since
the last reprog. This fixes our issue because we don't do repetitive
clock reprog that always add hardware min delay.

As a side effect it should even optimize the 0 delay path in general.

Reported-and-tested-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496328429-13317-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-05 09:33:50 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7c25904508 nohz: Reset next_tick cache even when the timer has no regs
Handle tick interrupts whose regs are NULL, out of general paranoia. It happens
when hrtimer_interrupt() is called from non-interrupt contexts, such as hotplug
CPU down events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-30 18:35:32 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
411fe24e6b nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers, again
This restores commit:

  24b91e360e: ("nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers")

... which got reverted by commit:

  558e8e27e7: ('Revert "nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers"')

... due to a regression where CPUs spuriously stopped ticking.

The bug happened when a tick fired too early past its expected expiration:
on IRQ exit the tick was scheduled again to the same deadline but skipped
reprogramming because ts->next_tick still kept in cache the deadline.
This has been fixed now with resetting ts->next_tick from the tick
itself. Extra care has also been taken to prevent from obsolete values
throughout CPU hotplug operations.

When the tick is stopped and an interrupt occurs afterward, we check on
that interrupt exit if the next tick needs to be rescheduled. If it
doesn't need any update, we don't want to do anything.

In order to check if the tick needs an update, we compare it against the
clockevent device deadline. Now that's a problem because the clockevent
device is at a lower level than the tick itself if it is implemented
on top of hrtimer.

Every hrtimer share this clockevent device. So comparing the next tick
deadline against the clockevent device deadline is wrong because the
device may be programmed for another hrtimer whose deadline collides
with the tick. As a result we may end up not reprogramming the tick
accidentally.

In a worst case scenario under full dynticks mode, the tick stops firing
as it is supposed to every 1hz, leaving /proc/stat stalled:

      Task in a full dynticks CPU
      ----------------------------

      * hrtimer A is queued 2 seconds ahead
      * the tick is stopped, scheduled 1 second ahead
      * tick fires 1 second later
      * on tick exit, nohz schedules the tick 1 second ahead but sees
        the clockevent device is already programmed to that deadline,
        fooled by hrtimer A, the tick isn't rescheduled.
      * hrtimer A is cancelled before its deadline
      * tick never fires again until an interrupt happens...

In order to fix this, store the next tick deadline to the tick_sched
local structure and reuse that value later to check whether we need to
reprogram the clock after an interrupt.

On the other hand, ts->sleep_length still wants to know about the next
clock event and not just the tick, so we want to improve the related
comment to avoid confusion.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tim Wright <tim@binbash.co.uk>
Reported-and-tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Reported-by: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492783255-5051-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-17 08:19:47 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
ce6cf9a15d nohz: Add hrtimer sanity check
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-17 08:19:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ac1e843f09 sched/clock: Remove unused argument to sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event()
The argument to sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event() has not been used in a
long time. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-15 10:15:18 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b7eaf1aab9 cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurely
The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to
underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases.

That can be easily demonstrated by running kernel compilation on
a Sandy Bridge Intel processor, running turbostat in parallel with
it and looking at the values written to the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
register.  Namely, the expected result would be that when all CPUs
were 100% busy, all of them would be requested to run in the maximum
P-state, but observation shows that this clearly isn't the case.
The CPUs run in the maximum P-state for a while and then are
requested to run slower and go back to the maximum P-state after
a while again.  That causes the actual frequency of the processor to
visibly oscillate below the sustainable maximum in a jittery fashion
which clearly is not desirable.

That has been attributed to CPU utilization metric updates on task
migration that cause the total utilization value for the CPU to be
reduced by the utilization of the migrated task.  If that happens,
the schedutil governor may see a CPU utilization reduction and will
attempt to reduce the CPU frequency accordingly right away.  That
may be premature, though, for example if the system is generally
busy and there are other runnable tasks waiting to be run on that
CPU already.

This is unlikely to be an issue on systems where cpufreq policies are
shared between multiple CPUs, because in those cases the policy
utilization is computed as the maximum of the CPU utilization values
over the whole policy and if that turns out to be low, reducing the
frequency for the policy most likely is a good idea anyway.  On
systems with one CPU per policy, however, it may affect performance
adversely and even lead to increased energy consumption in some cases.

On those systems it may be addressed by taking another utilization
metric into consideration, like whether or not the CPU whose
frequency is about to be reduced has been idle recently, because if
that's not the case, the CPU is likely to be busy in the near future
and its frequency should not be reduced.

To that end, use the counter of idle calls in the timekeeping code.
Namely, make the schedutil governor look at that counter for the
current CPU every time before its frequency is about to be reduced.
If the counter has not changed since the previous iteration of the
governor computations for that CPU, the CPU has been busy for all
that time and its frequency should not be decreased, so if the new
frequency would be lower than the one set previously, the governor
will skip the frequency update.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
2017-03-23 02:12:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
370c91355c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nohz.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/nohz.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/nohz.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
03441a3482 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/stat.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/stat.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/stat.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
38b8d208a4 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/nmi.h>
We are going to move softlockup APIs out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

<linux/nmi.h> already includes <linux/sched.h>.

Include the <linux/nmi.h> header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:30 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3f07c01441 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e601757102 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
558e8e27e7 Revert "nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers"
This reverts commit 24b91e360e and commit
7bdb59f1ad ("tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick
soft restart") that depends on it,

Pavel reports that it causes occasional boot hangs for him that seem to
depend on just how the machine was booted.  In particular, his machine
hangs at around the PCI fixups of the EHCI USB host controller, but only
hangs from cold boot, not from a warm boot.

Thomas Gleixner suspecs it's a CPU hotplug interaction, particularly
since Pavel also saw suspend/resume issues that seem to be related.
We're reverting for now while trying to figure out the root cause.

Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org  # reverted commits were marked for stable
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-16 12:19:18 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7bdb59f1ad tick/nohz: Fix possible missing clock reprog after tick soft restart
ts->next_tick keeps track of the next tick deadline in order to optimize
clock programmation on irq exit and avoid redundant clock device writes.

Now if ts->next_tick missed an update, we may spuriously miss a clock
reprog later as the nohz code is fooled by an obsolete next_tick value.

This is what happens here on a specific path: when we observe an
expired timer from the nohz update code on irq exit, we perform a soft
tick restart which simply fires the closest possible tick without
actually exiting the nohz mode and restoring a periodic state. But we
forget to update ts->next_tick accordingly.

As a result, after the next tick resulting from such soft tick restart,
the nohz code sees a stale value on ts->next_tick which doesn't match
the clock deadline that just expired. If that obsolete ts->next_tick
value happens to collide with the actual next tick deadline to be
scheduled, we may spuriously bypass the clock reprogramming. In the
worst case, the tick may never fire again.

Fix this with a ts->next_tick reset on soft tick restart.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486485894-29173-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-02-10 09:43:48 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24b91e360e nohz: Fix collision between tick and other hrtimers
When the tick is stopped and an interrupt occurs afterward, we check on
that interrupt exit if the next tick needs to be rescheduled. If it
doesn't need any update, we don't want to do anything.

In order to check if the tick needs an update, we compare it against the
clockevent device deadline. Now that's a problem because the clockevent
device is at a lower level than the tick itself if it is implemented
on top of hrtimer.

Every hrtimer share this clockevent device. So comparing the next tick
deadline against the clockevent device deadline is wrong because the
device may be programmed for another hrtimer whose deadline collides
with the tick. As a result we may end up not reprogramming the tick
accidentally.

In a worst case scenario under full dynticks mode, the tick stops firing
as it is supposed to every 1hz, leaving /proc/stat stalled:

      Task in a full dynticks CPU
      ----------------------------

      * hrtimer A is queued 2 seconds ahead
      * the tick is stopped, scheduled 1 second ahead
      * tick fires 1 second later
      * on tick exit, nohz schedules the tick 1 second ahead but sees
        the clockevent device is already programmed to that deadline,
        fooled by hrtimer A, the tick isn't rescheduled.
      * hrtimer A is cancelled before its deadline
      * tick never fires again until an interrupt happens...

In order to fix this, store the next tick deadline to the tick_sched
local structure and reuse that value later to check whether we need to
reprogram the clock after an interrupt.

On the other hand, ts->sleep_length still wants to know about the next
clock event and not just the tick, so we want to improve the related
comment to avoid confusion.

Reported-by: James Hartsock <hartsjc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483539124-5693-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-01-11 10:41:33 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
2456e85535 ktime: Get rid of the union
ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.

Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.

The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
31eff2434d sched/nohz: Convert to hotplug state machine
Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: rt@linuxtronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117183541.8588-14-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-22 23:34:41 +01:00
Wanpeng Li
57ccdf449f tick/nohz: Prevent stopping the tick on an offline CPU
can_stop_full_tick() has no check for offline cpus. So it allows to stop
the tick on an offline cpu from the interrupt return path, which is wrong
and subsequently makes irq_work_needs_cpu() warn about being called for an
offline cpu.

Commit f7ea0fd639 ("tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if
the cpu is offline") added prevention for can_stop_idle_tick(), but forgot
to do the same in can_stop_full_tick(). Add it.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473245473-4463-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-13 17:53:52 +02:00
Wanpeng Li
08d0725992 tick/nohz: Fix softlockup on scheduler stalls in kvm guest
tick_nohz_start_idle() is prevented to be called if the idle tick can't 
be stopped since commit 1f3b0f8243 ("tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle 
enter"). As a result, after suspend/resume the host machine, full dynticks 
kvm guest will softlockup:

 NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s! [swapper/0:0]
 Call Trace:
  default_idle+0x31/0x1a0
  arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20
  default_idle_call+0x2a/0x50
  cpu_startup_entry+0x39b/0x4d0
  rest_init+0x138/0x140
  ? rest_init+0x5/0x140
  start_kernel+0x4c1/0x4ce
  ? set_init_arg+0x55/0x55
  ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
  x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
  x86_64_start_kernel+0x142/0x14f

In addition, cat /proc/stat | grep cpu in guest or host:

cpu  398 16 5049 15754 5490 0 1 46 0 0
cpu0 206 5 450 0 0 0 1 14 0 0
cpu1 81 0 3937 3149 1514 0 0 9 0 0
cpu2 45 6 332 6052 2243 0 0 11 0 0
cpu3 65 2 328 6552 1732 0 0 11 0 0

The idle and iowait states are weird 0 for cpu0(housekeeping). 

The bug is present in both guest and host kernels, and they both have 
cpu0's idle and iowait states issue, however, host kernel's suspend/resume 
path etc will touch watchdog to avoid the softlockup.

- The watchdog will not be touched in tick_nohz_stop_idle path (need be 
  touched since the scheduler stall is expected) if idle_active flags are 
  not detected.
- The idle and iowait states will not be accounted when exit idle loop 
  (resched or interrupt) if idle start time and idle_active flags are 
  not set. 

This patch fixes it by reverting commit 1f3b0f8243 since can't stop 
idle tick doesn't mean can't be idle.

Fixes: 1f3b0f8243 ("tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter")
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Sanjeev Yadav<sanjeev.yadav@spreadtrum.com>
Cc: Gaurav Jindal<gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472798303-4154-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-02 10:25:40 +02:00
Gaurav Jindal
1f3b0f8243 tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter
tick_nohz_start_idle is called before checking whether the idle tick can be
stopped. If the tick cannot be stopped, calling tick_nohz_start_idle() is
pointless and just wasting CPU cycles.

Only invoke tick_nohz_start_idle() when can_stop_idle_tick() returns true. A
short one minute observation of the effect on ARM64 shows a reduction of calls
by 1.5% thus optimizing the idle entry sequence.

[tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Co-developed-by: Sanjeev Yadav<sanjeev.yadav@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Jindal<gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714120416.GB21099@gaurav.jindal@spreadtrum.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-07-19 13:48:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4b4b20852d Merge branch 'timers/fast-wheel' into timers/core 2016-07-07 10:35:28 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
a683f390b9 timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible
The wheel clock is stale when a CPU goes into a long idle sleep. This has the
side effect that timers which are queued end up in the outer wheel levels.
That results in coarser granularity.

To solve this, we keep track of the idle state and forward the wheel clock
whenever possible.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.512039360@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-07 10:35:11 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ff00673292 timers/nohz: Remove pointless tick_nohz_kick_tick() function
This was a failed attempt to optimize the timer expiry in idle, which was
disabled and never revisited. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.431073782@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-07 10:35:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0de7611a10 timers/nohz: Capitalize 'CPU' consistently
While reviewing another patch I noticed that kernel/time/tick-sched.c
had a charmingly (confusingly, annoyingly) rich set of variants for
spelling 'CPU':

  cpu
  cpus
  CPU
  CPUs
  per CPU
  per-CPU
  per cpu

... sometimes these were mixed even within the same comment block!

Compress these variants down to a single consistent set of:

  CPU
  CPUs
  per-CPU

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-01 12:45:34 +02:00
Wei Jiangang
6168f8ed01 timers/nohz: Fix several typos
Signed-off-by: Wei Jiangang <weijg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467175910-2966-2-git-send-email-weijg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-01 12:39:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
825a3b2605 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - massive CPU hotplug rework (Thomas Gleixner)

 - improve migration fairness (Peter Zijlstra)

 - CPU load calculation updates/cleanups (Yuyang Du)

 - cpufreq updates (Steve Muckle)

 - nohz optimizations (Frederic Weisbecker)

 - switch_mm() micro-optimization on x86 (Andy Lutomirski)

 - ... lots of other enhancements, fixes and cleanups.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits)
  ARM: Hide finish_arch_post_lock_switch() from modules
  sched/core: Provide a tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() helper
  sched/core: Use tsk_cpus_allowed() instead of accessing ->cpus_allowed
  sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems
  sched/fair: Correct unit of load_above_capacity
  sched/fair: Clean up scale confusion
  sched/nohz: Fix affine unpinned timers mess
  sched/fair: Fix fairness issue on migration
  sched/core: Kill sched_class::task_waking to clean up the migration logic
  sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration
  sched/fair: Move record_wakee()
  sched/core: Fix comment typo in wake_q_add()
  sched/core: Remove unused variable
  sched: Make hrtick_notifier an explicit call
  sched/fair: Make ilb_notifier an explicit call
  sched/hotplug: Make activate() the last hotplug step
  sched/hotplug: Move migration CPU_DYING to sched_cpu_dying()
  sched/migration: Move CPU_ONLINE into scheduler state
  sched/migration: Move calc_load_migrate() into CPU_DYING
  sched/migration: Move prepare transition to SCHED_STARTING state
  ...
2016-05-16 14:47:16 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
a1cc5bcfcf locking/atomics: Flip atomic_fetch_or() arguments
All the atomic operations have their arguments the wrong way around;
make atomic_fetch_or() consistent and flip them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-05 09:58:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1f41906a6f sched/fair: Correctly handle nohz ticks CPU load accounting
Ticks can happen while the CPU is in dynticks-idle or dynticks-singletask
mode. In fact "nohz" or "dynticks" only mean that we exit the periodic
mode and we try to minimize the ticks as much as possible. The nohz
subsystem uses a confusing terminology with the internal state
"ts->tick_stopped" which is also available through its public interface
with tick_nohz_tick_stopped(). This is a misnomer as the tick is instead
reduced with the best effort rather than stopped. In the best case the
tick can indeed be actually stopped but there is no guarantee about that.
If a timer needs to fire one second later, a tick will fire while the
CPU is in nohz mode and this is a very common scenario.

Now this confusion happens to be a problem with CPU load updates:
cpu_load_update_active() doesn't handle nohz ticks correctly because it
assumes that ticks are completely stopped in nohz mode and that
cpu_load_update_active() can't be called in dynticks mode. When that
happens, the whole previous tickless load is ignored and the function
just records the load for the current tick, ignoring potentially long
idle periods behind.

In order to solve this, we could account the current load for the
previous nohz time but there is a risk that we account the load of a
task that got freshly enqueued for the whole nohz period.

So instead, lets record the dynticks load on nohz frame entry so we know
what to record in case of nohz ticks, then use this record to account
the tickless load on nohz ticks and nohz frame end.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-23 14:20:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cee1afce30 sched/fair: Gather CPU load functions under a more conventional namespace
The CPU load update related functions have a weak naming convention
currently, starting with update_cpu_load_*() which isn't ideal as
"update" is a very generic concept.

Since two of these functions are public already (and a third is to come)
that's enough to introduce a more conventional naming scheme. So let's
do the following rename instead:

	update_cpu_load_*() -> cpu_load_update_*()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-23 14:20:41 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f009a7a767 timers/nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t
The tick dependency mask was intially unsigned long because this is the
type on which clear_bit() operates on and fetch_or() accepts it.

But now that we have atomic_fetch_or(), we can instead use
atomic_andnot() to clear the bit. This consolidates the type of our
tick dependency mask, reduce its size on structures and benefit from
possible architecture optimizations on atomic_t operations.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458830281-4255-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-29 11:52:11 +02:00
Joe Perches
a395d6a7e3 kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn
Use the more common logging method with the eventual goal of removing
pr_warning altogether.

Miscellanea:

 - Realign arguments
 - Coalesce formats
 - Add missing space between a few coalesced formats

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>	[kernel/power/suspend.c]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
Kees Cook
4cc7ecb7f2 param: convert some "on"/"off" users to strtobool
This changes several users of manual "on"/"off" parsing to use
strtobool.

Some side-effects:
- these uses will now parse y/n/1/0 meaningfully too
- the early_param uses will now bubble up parse errors

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
4f49b90abb sched-clock: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
Instead of checking sched_clock_stable from the nohz subsystem to verify
its tick dependency, migrate it to the new mask in order to include it
to the all-in-one check.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:44:57 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b78783000d posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
posix cpu timers tick dependency, migrate the latter to the new mask.

In order to keep track of the running timers and expose the tick
dependency accordingly, we must probe the timers queuing and dequeuing
on threads and process lists.

Unfortunately it implies both task and signal level dependencies. We
should be able to further optimize this and merge all that on the task
level dependency, at the cost of a bit of complexity and may be overhead.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:44:27 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
76d92ac305 sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
sched tick dependency, migrate sched to the new mask.

Everytime a task is enqueued or dequeued, we evaluate the state of the
tick dependency on top of the policy of the tasks in the runqueue, by
order of priority:

SCHED_DEADLINE: Need the tick in order to periodically check for runtime
SCHED_FIFO    : Don't need the tick (no round-robin)
SCHED_RR      : Need the tick if more than 1 task of the same priority
                for round robin (simplified with checking if more than
                one SCHED_RR task no matter what priority).
SCHED_NORMAL  : Need the tick if more than 1 task for round-robin.

We could optimize that further with one flag per sched policy on the tick
dependency mask and perform only the checks relevant to the policy
concerned by an enqueue/dequeue operation.

Since the checks aren't based on the current task anymore, we could get
rid of the task switch hook but it's still needed for posix cpu
timers.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:43:41 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
555e0c1ef7 perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify
perf event tick dependency, migrate perf to the new mask.

Perf needs the tick for two situations:

1) Freq events. We could set the tick dependency when those are
installed on a CPU context. But setting a global dependency on top of
the global freq events accounting is much easier. If people want that
to be optimized, we can still refine that on the per-CPU tick dependency
level. This patch dooesn't change the current behaviour anyway.

2) Throttled events: this is a per-cpu dependency.

Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:43:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e6e6cc22e0 nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message
It makes nohz tracing more lightweight, standard and easier to parse.

Examples:

       user_loop-2904  [007] d..1   517.701126: tick_stop: success=1 dependency=NONE
       user_loop-2904  [007] dn.1   518.021181: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=SCHED
    posix_timers-6142  [007] d..1  1739.027400: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=POSIX_TIMER
       user_loop-5463  [007] dN.1  1185.931939: tick_stop: success=0 dependency=PERF_EVENTS

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:42:15 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d027d45d8a nohz: New tick dependency mask
The tick dependency is evaluated on every IRQ and context switch. This
consists is a batch of checks which determine whether it is safe to
stop the tick or not. These checks are often split in many details:
posix cpu timers, scheduler, sched clock, perf events.... each of which
are made of smaller details: posix cpu timer involves checking process
wide timers then thread wide timers. Perf involves checking freq events
then more per cpu details.

Checking these informations asynchronously every time we update the full
dynticks state bring avoidable overhead and a messy layout.

Let's introduce instead tick dependency masks: one for system wide
dependency (unstable sched clock, freq based perf events), one for CPU
wide dependency (sched, throttling perf events), and task/signal level
dependencies (posix cpu timers). The subsystems are responsible
for setting and clearing their dependency through a set of APIs that will
take care of concurrent dependency mask modifications and kick targets
to restart the relevant CPU tick whenever needed.

This new dependency engine stays beside the old one until all subsystems
having a tick dependency are converted to it.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 16:41:39 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8537bb95a6 nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work
It simplifies it and allows wide kick to be performed, even when IRQs
are disabled, without an asynchronous level in the middle.

This comes at a cost of some more overhead on features like perf and
posix cpu timers slow-paths, which is probably not much important
for nohz full users.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-02-13 15:34:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
dc799d0179 Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer departement delivers:

   - a regression fix for the NTP code along with a proper selftest
   - prevent a spurious timer interrupt in the NOHZ lowres code
   - a fix for user space interfaces returning the remaining time on
     architectures with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES=y
   - a few patches to fix COMPILE_TEST fallout"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tick/nohz: Set the correct expiry when switching to nohz/lowres mode
  clocksource: Fix dependencies for archs w/o HAS_IOMEM
  clocksource: Select CLKSRC_MMIO where needed
  tick/sched: Hide unused oneshot timer code
  kselftests: timers: Add adjtimex SETOFFSET validity tests
  ntp: Fix ADJ_SETOFFSET being used w/ ADJ_NANO
  itimers: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper
  posix-timers: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper
  timerfd: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper
  hrtimer: Handle remaining time proper for TIME_LOW_RES
  clockevents/tcb_clksrc: Prevent disabling an already disabled clock
2016-01-31 15:49:06 -08:00
Wanpeng Li
1ca8ec532f tick/nohz: Set the correct expiry when switching to nohz/lowres mode
commit 0ff53d0964 sets the next tick interrupt to the last jiffies update,
i.e. in the past, because the forward operation is invoked before the set
operation. There is no resulting damage (yet), but we get an extra pointless
tick interrupt.

Revert the order so we get the next tick interrupt in the future.

Fixes: commit 0ff53d0964 "tick: sched: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic"
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453893967-3458-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-01-27 12:45:57 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
7809998ab1 tick/sched: Hide unused oneshot timer code
A couple of functions in kernel/time/tick-sched.c are only
relevant for oneshot timer mode, i.e. when hires-timers or
nohz mode are enabled. If both are disabled, we get gcc warnings
about them:

kernel/time/tick-sched.c:98:16: warning: 'tick_init_jiffy_update' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static ktime_t tick_init_jiffy_update(void)
                ^
kernel/time/tick-sched.c:112:13: warning: 'tick_sched_do_timer' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static void tick_sched_do_timer(ktime_t now)
             ^
kernel/time/tick-sched.c:134:13: warning: 'tick_sched_handle' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 static void tick_sched_handle(struct tick_sched *ts, struct pt_regs *regs)
             ^

This encloses the whole set of functions in an appropriate ifdef
to avoid the warning and to make it clearer when they are used.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453736525-1959191-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-01-26 16:26:06 +01:00